Buy My Greens! Buy My Greens!

When we launched EatingAsia in 2005 an (at the time) Saigon-based, trailblazing food blogger suggested we incorporate the occasional bit of video. Two years later, we're finally getting around to it.

Today, EatingAsia enters the twenty-first century.

A couple weeks ago Dave and I took a first-time visitor to Malaysia to Pasar Pudu, one of our favorite wet markets here in Kuala Lumpur. Cruising the narrow corridor that connects Jalan Pasar to the huge open heart of the market, we walked smack into the sort of wall of noise that characterizes many southeast Asian wet markets. These vendors are all selling basically the same thing - bunches of Chinese greens - for pretty much the same price. How does a vendor in a situation like this distinguish himself and his product?

Thanks to Brett Martin for uploading the video (after my first two failed attempts).